how do i remove a scsi device ?

2000-03-15 Thread spectral
Hi, I posted a question a while ago, but noone answered AFAIK. Anyway, I have an advansys scsi card with one plexiwriter attached to it. I burnt something and cdrecord decided to crash so now the cdburner is "locked", I can't open the cdtray nor can i access it in any way. I've also experienced t

(OFFTOPIC? ) Re: Pretty-Park.exe = VIRUS

2000-03-15 Thread Cliff Rice
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:47:57PM +0100, Vitux wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Arne wrote: > > > > > Pretty-Park.exe = VIRUS > > > Delete, Don't run! Delete what? The virus or WinBillBlows? Seems either option would solve the problem. > > > Debian GNU/Linux > Micro$loth-free Zone > > --

Solved: Netscape install. Is bash pulling my leg?

2000-03-15 Thread Vitux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Vitux wrote: > > > it just says "bash: command not found" > > I know positively that ns-install is there among > > the rest of the untarred files, and I am logged in > > as root. > > You must write ./ns-install since that directory you have extr

Re: Netscape install. Is bash pulling my leg?

2000-03-15 Thread spectral
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Vitux wrote: > it just says "bash: command not found" > I know positively that ns-install is there among > the rest of the untarred files, and I am logged in > as root. You must write ./ns-install since that directory you have extracted it to is not in your path. /Jonas

Re: the FAQ-machine

2000-03-15 Thread Hans Ekbrand
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:25:04 -0500 From: "t.bedlam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 10:06:58AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand was only escaped alone to tell thee: > Wouldn't it be a good thing if questions that were raised more than once > on this list, and answered was

Netscape install. Is bash pulling my leg?

2000-03-15 Thread Vitux
Hi there Trying to install Netscape 4.72. I fetch the communicator-v472-export.x86-unknown-linuxglibc2.0.tar.gz from the Netscape ftp-site. put it in its own dir in /home/vitux (mkdir & cp foo) untar with tar -xvvzf foo.tar.gz (something like that: a ton of files is unpacked) now when I try to invo

Re: MegaRAID under 2.2

2000-03-15 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
Le 2000-03-15 15:47:03 -0600, Hecubus écrivait : > I've been trying to run the install for Debian 2.2 (frozen) on a Dell > PowerEdge 4400, but it won't recognize the installed Dell PERC2/DC > (AMI MegaRAID) controller. I've even gone so far as to recompile my own > kernel and configure it onto the

Re: HELP: update produces an empty db???

2000-03-15 Thread Kevin Dalley
Sorry, I screwed up an upload. The corrected version should be available soon, findutils-4.1-40. Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hello, > > i tryed it now by hand: > localhost:~# updatedb > /usr/bin/updatedb: frcode: command not found > updatedb: new database would be empty > > a

freeing memory after gethostbyname()

2000-03-15 Thread Evan Moore
I am writting a small network deamon in c, and just dowloaded a copy of lclint, which told me that I have a memory leak, great I say, I look at the code and realize duh, how did i miss that of course i defined a variable hostinfo of type struct hostent then let gethostbyname fill it up. So i try to

Re: How to display to a television?

2000-03-15 Thread markm
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 08:07:37PM -0500, Fredrick Paul Eisele wrote: > Has anyone done RGB output to a televion. > How is it done? Years and years ago, there were circuits available to convert CGA output to the television (both using an rf modulator or by operating on the tele and injecting the s

partition recommendations

2000-03-15 Thread Kenneth Scharf
With an eye toward upgrading to Potato, and hearing all the horor stories about slink->potato upgrade failures I decided to do a fresh install from scratch. So I obtained a brand new 27GB drive from www.compgeeks.com (check them out, great bargins!). I will have a small (say 100 mb) "/boot" parti

MegaRAID under 2.2

2000-03-15 Thread Hecubus
I've been trying to run the install for Debian 2.2 (frozen) on a Dell PowerEdge 4400, but it won't recognize the installed Dell PERC2/DC (AMI MegaRAID) controller. I've even gone so far as to recompile my own kernel and configure it onto the rescue disk, but to no avail. It boots - listing nothin

Re: Netscape & Streaming MP3s

2000-03-15 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
I believe plugger with mpg123 will do something like what you want. You get a blank page while it plays. Not perfect, but something. Marshal > "David" == David Grill Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to be able to play my music from my.mp3.com ('beamed' > using beam-it) wi

emacs site-lisp

2000-03-15 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I'd like to know where can I place the emacs site specific stuff to for potato box? I tried to both of these directories and did not seem to work /usr/local/share/site-lisp/site-start.el /usr/local/share/20.5/site-lisp/site-start.el Thanks! --- tcp

Re: Does Slink use libc5?

2000-03-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 22:27:49 +0100, Vitux wrote: > It says Linux2.0(libc5). I'm running Slink, standard 2.0.36 krnl. Slink defaults to libc6, but can run libc5 applications using the libraries in the "oldlibs" section of the archive. HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the vo

Does Slink use libc5?

2000-03-15 Thread Vitux
Newbie Q, I know. Just making sure, before d'l-ing 15Mb Netscape 4.72. It says Linux2.0(libc5). I'm running Slink, standard 2.0.36 krnl. Regards Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone

Re: termcap.h wanted.

2000-03-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
[Please use < 80 character lines] On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 15:37:27 +0100, Martin Högman wrote: > Basically, LAME needs termcap.h in order to compile, and debian utilizes > terminfo. #include instead and link -lncurses; it should be a drop-in replacement. HTH, Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to adv

Re: HELP: update produces an empty db???

2000-03-15 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 07:52:39PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > hello, > > i tryed it now by hand: > localhost:~# updatedb > /usr/bin/updatedb: frcode: command not found > updatedb: new database would be empty > > and in effect the db is empty what's this frcode about and how do i get > th

Re: Help Meeeeeee!

2000-03-15 Thread DanSV
In a message dated 3/14/00 3:10:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On 03/14/00 02:47PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have the 2.2.14 kernal running, and can't see all of my ram: > > DIMM1: 128mb PC100 DIMM2: 32mb PC100 DIMM3: > > I see 64 mb. The system bios detects 1

Re: Pretty-Park.exe = VIRUS

2000-03-15 Thread Ron Rademaker
YOU ARE SO RIGHT... Ron Linux meets Southpark: - Oh my god they killed Init - You bastard!! On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Vitux wrote: > Jason Christensen wrote: > > > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Arne wrote: > > > > > Pretty-Park.exe = VIRUS > > > Delete, Don't run! > > > > > > > Why the h

Re: Pretty-Park.exe = VIRUS

2000-03-15 Thread kmself
Very valid point. Bigotry (OS or otherwise) is dangerous in all its forms. Though I believe there is a minor devine exemption from eternal damnation from those who take small delight in the troubles plagueing users of legacy OSs, so long as it's couched in helpful terms. On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 a

Re: Pretty-Park.exe = VIRUS

2000-03-15 Thread Ron Rademaker
Remember the happy99 virus?? It AUTOMATTICALY sent the virus to everything in your adressbook, my guess is that that is what has happened (at least I HOPE SO). Ron On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Jason Christensen wrote: > > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Arne wrote: > > > Pretty-Park.exe = VIRU

Re: Pretty-Park.exe = VIRUS

2000-03-15 Thread Vitux
Jason Christensen wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Arne wrote: > > > Pretty-Park.exe = VIRUS > > Delete, Don't run! > > > > Why the hell did you send it to the list? Most of us would not be plagued > by a windows virus, however it wasn't a real bright thing to do! > > If anyone inadvertanly ran

Re: Netscape 4.72

2000-03-15 Thread Raphael Clancy
Hmmm I just grabed the tar ball from netscape ... and (amazingly) it worked without a hitch. (my system is a slink with vincent's upgrades)

Re: the FAQ-machine

2000-03-15 Thread t.bedlam
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 10:06:58AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand was only escaped alone to tell thee: > Wouldn't it be a good thing if questions that were raised more than once > on this list, and answered was included in the automatic FAQ? This FAQ > seems to be a bit smaller than I expected, regarde

Re: assigning IRQ manually

2000-03-15 Thread dan
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 05:00:43AM -0800, t s a d i generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > hello, > > how do i assign an IRQ to my eth0 manually ? (the PCI cont on my new > board doest do that, even if on auto) ... > its something that u need to add in ur lilo.conf right ? .. please > help ...

Re: Pretty-Park.exe = VIRUS

2000-03-15 Thread Tom Allard
> Why the hell did you send it to the list? Most of us would not be plagued > by a windows virus, however it wasn't a real bright thing to do! > > If anyone inadvertanly ran this program on a windoze box, check: > > http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/prettypark.worm.html If you read the

Re: Pretty-Park.exe = VIRUS

2000-03-15 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 08:30:10AM -1000, Jason Christensen wrote: > > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Arne wrote: > > > Pretty-Park.exe = VIRUS > > Delete, Don't run! > > > > Why the hell did you send it to the list? Most of us would not be plagued > by a windows virus, however it wasn't a real bright

Re: Pretty-Park.exe = VIRUS

2000-03-15 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Please, lets be careful, since many of us access this list from offices (with win-sh*t). Thanks. Jason Christensen wrote: > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Arne wrote: > > > Pretty-Park.exe = VIRUS > > Delete, Don't run! > > > > Why the hell did you send it to the list? Most of us would not be plagued > by

How to increase the max. no of active processes

2000-03-15 Thread Preetam Patil
Hi How does one increase the limit on the number of active processes on a system ? i.e. the size of "task" vector that holds the task_struct data structure. I guess the default limit is 512, so where does one have to tweak this ? TIA, Preetam Patil Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful

HELP: update produces an empty db???

2000-03-15 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i tryed it now by hand: localhost:~# updatedb /usr/bin/updatedb: frcode: command not found updatedb: new database would be empty and in effect the db is empty what's this frcode about and how do i get this problem solved? -- ciao bboett ===

Re: Pretty-Park.exe = VIRUS

2000-03-15 Thread Jason Christensen
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Arne wrote: > Pretty-Park.exe = VIRUS > Delete, Don't run! > Why the hell did you send it to the list? Most of us would not be plagued by a windows virus, however it wasn't a real bright thing to do! If anyone inadvertanly ran this program on a windoze box, check: http:/

Netscape 4.72

2000-03-15 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, There are two .debs for netscape - netscape-smotif-472_4.72-15 netscape-smotif-472-lib5_4.72-15 But when I installed the 'netscape-smotif-472_4.72-15', it still ends up depending on libc5 stuff. My question would be, is there a netscape version does not depend on the libc

Pretty-Park.exe = VIRUS

2000-03-15 Thread Arne
Pretty-Park.exe = VIRUS Delete, Don't run! Arne

Easy quota question

2000-03-15 Thread Ron Rademaker
I'm trying to set some quota's but I think the documentation is kinda poor. I do: edquota , and vi is invoked, so I want to set the quota for this user... HOW I checked all the manpages of quota, the /usr/doc/quota I CAN'T FIND THE FORMAT IN WHICH I SHOULD TYPE THE QUOTA I think thi

Re: home network: will bo play with potato?

2000-03-15 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
I did this at work for a while. I ran VMware with Win98 as the guest OS on a Celeron 466 with lots of ram, (somebody else was using this system), and displayed it to my measly memory-strapped Pentium 166. It worked quite well, except it wouldn't let me do full screen VMWare. On 15-Mar-2000 Brad w

Keyboard screws up with Midnight Commander

2000-03-15 Thread Richard Eckart
Hi folks This is driving me crazy... since some time now I won't get MC to learn my keys correctly. Since I'm german, first I thought it might have something to do with the umlauts, but this seems to be wrong. I finally managed to get bash to accept these and it didn't help Ok, so here's what hap

Netscape & Streaming MP3s

2000-03-15 Thread David Grill Watson
I want to be able to play my music from my.mp3.com ('beamed' using beam-it) without having to save the playlist and then run an mp3 player - I want to be able to just click on the link, and it should download the .m3u file and start up xmms with that playlist. The problem is this: Netscape won

ZnO pressure sensor varistors, negative temperature coefficient (NTC) and positive temperature coefficient (PTC) full range product

2000-03-15 Thread ke xing
Guangdong Foshan Kestar Electronic Co., Ltd. is specializing in ZnO pressure sensor varistors, negative temperature coefficient (NTC) and positive temperature coefficient (PTC) full range products. We have implemented of ISO 9002. We devote ourselves to customers' satisfaction, excellent quali

Re: 'write' doesn't work.

2000-03-15 Thread Shaul Karl
> -my terminal output -- > redmoon:~$ write redmoon > bash: write: command not found > redmoon:~$ > - [17:54:11 /tmp]$ dpkg -S $(which write) bsdmainutils: /usr/bin/write [17:54:31 /tmp]$ Have you installed bsdmainutils? > > - Original Message

Re: C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe

2000-03-15 Thread John Stevenson
Apparently it is someones attempt at a virus (or something as undesirable). Our mail client didnt like it and removed it as an attachemet. Johnny. Ron Rademaker wrote: > What is this about??/ > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Arne wrote: > > > Test: Pretty Park.exe :) > > > >Arne > > > > -- > U

RE: C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe

2000-03-15 Thread Frank Dost
Look out PrettyPark.exe contains a virus which destroys your hard drive. Frank -Original Message- From: Ron Rademaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 15 maart 2000 16:14 To: Arne Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Par

Re: C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe

2000-03-15 Thread Ron Rademaker
What is this about??/ On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Arne wrote: > Test: Pretty Park.exe :) > >Arne >

Re: Replicating setup

2000-03-15 Thread Chris Osicki
Hi, dpkg --get-selections > file and dpkg --set-selections < file will only _install_ packages installed on "source" machine, it will not purge any packages on the "target" machine which are not installed on the "source". Thus the packages on "target" might be a superset of those on "source".

HELP: ssh = Write failed flushing stdout buffer.

2000-03-15 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i am using the ssh-nonfree version on woody... but this problems arises when trying to copy from certain machines to other ones when trying to copy i get the following message: scp -v kalman:testfile . Executing: host kalman, user (unspecified), command scp -v -f testfile SSH Version

Re: Writing corrupted files

2000-03-15 Thread Vicente Torres
nick wrote: > > Hi all, we are testing a machine (a dual PIII 500 with kernel 2.2.14pre15 > SMP with Debian Frozen) we did just upgrade it with latest frozen packages > and since then we have problems in opening old document newly saved. > When we launch StarOffice it opens the previously saved do

Writing corrupted files

2000-03-15 Thread nick
Hi all, we are testing a machine (a dual PIII 500 with kernel 2.2.14pre15 SMP with Debian Frozen) we did just upgrade it with latest frozen packages and since then we have problems in opening old document newly saved. When we launch StarOffice it opens the previously saved docs but after a save, wh

Re: hardware advice

2000-03-15 Thread Sean
On 15 Mar 2000, "Gregory T. Norris" wrote: > I'm planning to get a 3D-accelerated graphics card, and I was hoping to > get some suggestions on which ones are well supported by Linux. The > main requirement is that it must be a PCI card, since the system in > question doesn't have an AGP slot. >

termcap.h wanted.

2000-03-15 Thread Högman
Well, so I figured that I'd play around with some XMMS-plugins. However, the Icecast plugin I really wanted need say, LAME as an encoder. From there, it broke. :) Basically, LAME needs termcap.h in order to compile, and debian utilizes terminfo. Does anyone have any good ideas as to how this mi

Failed to clean virus file Pretty Park.exe

2000-03-15 Thread viruswall
The file you have sent was infected with a virus but InterScan E-Mail VirusWall could not clean it.

InterScan NT Alert

2000-03-15 Thread viruswall
Sender, InterScan has detected virus(es) in your e-mail attachment. You should take immediate action to clean your infected system. Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:35:35 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) Method: Mail From: To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> File: Pretty Park.exe Action: clean failed - dele

C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe

2000-03-15 Thread Arne
Test: Pretty Park.exe :) Arne <>

Re: Fetchmail, sendmail... let's do a thread about mail!

2000-03-15 Thread Ron Rademaker
No way they are going to use something else. you just can't teach an old dog new tricks! On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > I try to use fetchmail to get the mail from several accounts, some have to > > go to specified users, and from one mailbox, everything has to go to all >

Re: hardware advice

2000-03-15 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
I'd go with the Voodoo3 since I believe that the drivers are most farthest along. But, I'm biased. I own one. ;) Marshal > "Gregory" == Gregory T Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm planning to get a 3D-accelerated graphics card, and I was > hoping to get some suggestions on wh

Mutt & Locale [was Re: Mutt questions--SOLVED!]

2000-03-15 Thread José Luis Gómez Dans
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 03:57:47AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > hehehe we all do stupid stuff at some point ;-) I tend to do them every 5 seconds :) > btw do you know how to get mutt to display the accent marks and such > correctly? your name for example in mutt shows up like this: >

assigning IRQ manually

2000-03-15 Thread t s a d i
hello, how do i assign an IRQ to my eth0 manually ? (the PCI cont on my new board doest do that, even if on auto) ... its something that u need to add in ur lilo.conf right ? .. please help ... thanks, chad pls cc: me the reply, im not subscribed to this list anymore because i cant handle

Re: free zip utility, anyone?

2000-03-15 Thread Hans Ekbrand
I wrote in an earlier letter: I have unsuccessfully searched some file archives for a free zip utility that would let me extract pkzip files. Is there such a thing, or is the zip algorithm patented or something? Hans Ekbrand -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROT

Re: Mutt questions--SOLVED!

2000-03-15 Thread José Luis Gómez Dans
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 12:21:47PM +, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote: > Sorry, I didn't explain it properly. What I meant was that mutt > was appending (apart from the gnupg signature in PGP/MIME) another > attachement to the message with gnupg's output when run. It seems that > your mailer i

Re: Mutt questions

2000-03-15 Thread José Luis Gómez Dans
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 02:54:42AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > what do you mean attachments? you messages verify/view fine in mutt. > or do you mean broken M$ mailers? GnuPG+mutt send signed/crypted mail Sorry, I didn't explain it properly. What I meant was that mutt was appending (apar

Re: Mutt questions

2000-03-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 11:21:00AM +, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote: > Hi! > As you can see from this message, I keep on having "undesired" > features when using gnupg in conjuctions with Mutt: the output of gnupg > is attached to the e-mail. I have noticed that some other people suffer > fr

Re: Fetchmail, sendmail... let's do a thread about mail!

2000-03-15 Thread Davide Libenzi
> I try to use fetchmail to get the mail from several accounts, some have to > go to specified users, and from one mailbox, everything has to go to all > the users. The others on the network don't know how to use linux so they > have to use outlook (aa) to get the mail from the server. Tr

Mutt questions

2000-03-15 Thread José Luis Gómez Dans
Hi! As you can see from this message, I keep on having "undesired" features when using gnupg in conjuctions with Mutt: the output of gnupg is attached to the e-mail. I have noticed that some other people suffer from the same problem when signing their messages with gnupg. The software versi

Re: Fetchmail, sendmail... let's do a thread about mail!

2000-03-15 Thread Ron Rademaker
I try to use fetchmail to get the mail from several accounts, some have to go to specified users, and from one mailbox, everything has to go to all the users. The others on the network don't know how to use linux so they have to use outlook (aa) to get the mail from the server. On Tue, 14

hardware advice

2000-03-15 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I'm planning to get a 3D-accelerated graphics card, and I was hoping to get some suggestions on which ones are well supported by Linux. The main requirement is that it must be a PCI card, since the system in question doesn't have an AGP slot. The two which seem promising so far are the Matrox Mil

Using Ispell with Netscape Composer

2000-03-15 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I find myself using Composer more often as mail client in favor of mutt. Now I am wondering if it is possible to use my native spell-checker (Dutch) from Ispell in Composer. Or as an alternative: find other additional language modules for Composer. Any ideas? -- Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Mobile phone with Linux?

2000-03-15 Thread Radim Gelner
I'm using Siemens S25 (no ad, I just got it from my company :-)), and I'm quite happy with it. It contains a modem with an IR connector. Supports standard AT commands plus some more, all the specs are downloadable from the Siemens site. But beware, mobile data transfer is REALLY slow. Radim On

Re: home network: will bo play with potato?

2000-03-15 Thread kmself
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 09:18:44PM -0600, rich wrote: > total network newbie here, > > I recently acquired a 486dx-33 with 1.4gb hard drive that i want to use > as an x-terminal to connect to my pentium-200 (which runs potato). Is > potato appropriate for a 486? I have an old cd of bo that I thoug

Re: 4 Things

2000-03-15 Thread kmself
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 05:58:32PM -0600, boot100 wrote: > 1. Is there VPN support built into Linux? Not sure what "built A Freshmeat or Usenet search should provide information. don't have specifics. > 2. Is there a Unisys T27 Emulator for Linux? Not sure. Search results aren't particularly

unsubsribe

2000-03-15 Thread Juha Korkiakangas

Re: free zip utility, anyone?

2000-03-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 10:01:09AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > I have unsuccessfully searched some file archives for a free zip utility that > would let me extract pkzip files. Is there such a thing, or is the zip > algorithm patented or something? > > Hans Ekbrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] man]$ dpkg

Re: 'write' doesn't work.

2000-03-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 05:51:36PM +0900, newbie wrote: > -my terminal output -- > redmoon:~$ write redmoon > bash: write: command not found > redmoon:~$ > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] man]$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/write bsdmainutils: /usr/bin/write [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

Re: home network: will bo play with potato?

2000-03-15 Thread Vitux
rich wrote: > > total network newbie here, > > I recently acquired a 486dx-33 with 1.4gb hard drive that i want to use > as an x-terminal to connect to my pentium-200 (which runs potato). Is > potato appropriate for a 486? I have an old cd of bo that I thought > would work on the 486, but would I

Re: home network: will bo play with potato?

2000-03-15 Thread Hans Ekbrand
Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian From: Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 15 Mar 2000 00:44:30 -0500 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-Lis

free zip utility, anyone?

2000-03-15 Thread Hans Ekbrand
I have unsuccessfully searched some file archives for a free zip utility that would let me extract pkzip files. Is there such a thing, or is the zip algorithm patented or something? Hans Ekbrand

the FAQ-machine

2000-03-15 Thread Hans Ekbrand
Hi there! Wouldn't it be a good thing if questions that were raised more than once on this list, and answered was included in the automatic FAQ? This FAQ seems to be a bit smaller than I expected, regarded the number of frequently asked questions I have seen on this list the short period of tim

Re: 'write' doesn't work.

2000-03-15 Thread newbie
-my terminal output -- redmoon:~$ write redmoon bash: write: command not found redmoon:~$ - - Original Message - From: "Shaul Karl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ChangMin Oh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 5:14 PM Subject: R

Re: home network: will bo play with potato?

2000-03-15 Thread Brad
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 09:18:44PM -0600, rich wrote: > > BTW, is it really even feasible to use a 486 to run X programs like > wordperfect and Netscape off of my pentium? i'm just throwing my $0.02 in here, because it seems like other posters are missing something (of course, it could be just me

Re: 'write' doesn't work.

2000-03-15 Thread Shaul Karl
Can you supply more details? can you copy and paste your terminal output from which you concluded that "'write' doesn't work"? --- Begin Message --- How can I the package concerning 'write' or source?   Have a nice day~ --- End Message --- Shaul Karl [EM

Re: Replicating setup

2000-03-15 Thread Shaul Karl
> How can one make dselect replicate the setup of one system(same > packages) > to another system ? > dpkg --get-selections > pacakges_on_installed_machine copy pacakges_on_installed_machine to desired_packages_on_uninstalled_machine cat desired_packages_on_uninstalled_machine | dpkg --set-sel

Re: Replicating setup

2000-03-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 11:59:54AM +0530, Preetam Patil wrote: > How can one make dselect replicate the setup of one system(same > packages) > to another system ? on the source machine: dpkg --get-selections > selections on the destination machine: dpkg --set-selections < selections then run t

Re: extract a deb package ?

2000-03-15 Thread Phillip Deackes
Attila Csosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How could I extract ( like unzip ) a deb package to a directory? > I wouldn't install it. I'd like to get a file from it. The *easiest* way to extract a file or two from a .deb package is to use Midnight Commander (mc) or The Gnome file manager (GMC). W

Replicating setup

2000-03-15 Thread Preetam Patil
How can one make dselect replicate the setup of one system(same packages) to another system ? TIA, -Preetam Patil --- Preetam PatilE-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] School of Tech. & Comp. Science Phone:

Mobile phone with Linux?

2000-03-15 Thread Iain Pople
Hi, Just wondering if anyone has advice on which mobile phones work best with linux for sending emails. Is the Infra Red support at a level where it can be used for email? Do the phones that use a serial cable work? They seem to rely on some windows modem emulation software. Are there any other

Re: home network: will bo play with potato?

2000-03-15 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "rich" == rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > total network newbie here, I recently acquired a 486dx-33 with > 1.4gb hard drive that i want to use as an x-terminal to connect > to my pentium-200 (which runs potato). Is potato appropriate for > a 486? I have an old cd of bo th

Using Debian's make-kpkg to build kernels

2000-03-15 Thread Chris Fearnley
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) presents Using Debian's make-kpkg to build kernels When: Wednesday 15 March 2000, 8:00 PM - 9:30 P

Re: home network: will bo play with potato?

2000-03-15 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
At 09:18 PM 3/14/00 -0600, rich wrote: >I recently acquired a 486dx-33 with 1.4gb hard drive that i want to use >as an x-terminal to connect to my pentium-200 (which runs potato). Is >potato appropriate for a 486? I have an old cd of bo that I thought >would work on the 486, but would I be able to

Re: extract a deb package ?

2000-03-15 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 12:15:20AM +0100, Attila Csosz wrote: > > How could I extract ( like unzip ) a deb package to a directory? > I wouldn't install it. I'd like to get a file from it. dpkg --fsys-tarfile | tar -xf - > > Thanks > Attila > -- ---

RE: ADS Cadet FM Tuner Card

2000-03-15 Thread Paul Kallstrom
On 19-Feb-2000 Jonathan Lupa wrote: > Hi folks, > > A friend at work just gave me an FM tuner card. So I through it in my > debian box and through a process only describable as miraculous luck, > I figured out it was an ADS Cadet. So I compiled the driver in, and > installed the rtune program f

Re: home network: will bo play with potato?

2000-03-15 Thread dan
I don't see why it would make any difference. You can use your old hardware as firewall/router/server, but don't run X clients on it. Being an X terminal is all it will be able to do as far as running X.

scanning from a webserveR?

2000-03-15 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
Hi all, we run a webserver here that has over 1000 webhosts. we have about 30 users with telnet access and all of our customers have cgi access. now, we have received a report of someone using our webserver to port scan another machine starting on port 4000 and decreasing one port at a time.. ho

Re: OT: export regs Re: 128 bit Netscape and Fortify

2000-03-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 10:01:29PM -0600, Brad wrote: > > According to the Fortify webpage, there won't be any more updates now > that the 128 bit version is available to all. Does anyone know if that > 128 bit version be packaged for Debian? Or at least, will an installer > be provided? maybe so

Re: Rebuilding Kernel

2000-03-15 Thread Brad
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 10:36:17PM -0500, Neil L. Roeth wrote: > > Why isn't the config file corresponding to the kernel that comes with > the distribution provided? The first time I had to recompile a > kernel, it was rather daunting to have to figure out all of the > various options; it would h

Re: Fw: 4 Things

2000-03-15 Thread Robert L. Harris
I tried IE for Solaris because a Manager at my last company believed it had to be the best quality out there. We eventually gave up. You had to start it twice for it to come up. It was very unstable and would crash at random times. It's rendering of fonts and images was attrocious to say the

Fw: 4 Things

2000-03-15 Thread boot100
I was kind of hoping somebody made a package of it.     - Original Message - From: Rod Costain To: boot100 Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 9:11 PM Subject: Re: 4 Things Not sure about the first three but would not the Unix version of IE work on Linux? - Original Message -

Re: 128 bit Netscape and Fortify's Index file: Need help please

2000-03-15 Thread Brad
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 02:15:12PM -0700, Rev GRC Sperry wrote: > > Setting up navigator-smotif-472 (4.72-15) ... > Fortify 1.4.5; Copyright (C) 1997-1999 Farrell McKay You need Fortify 1.4.6 to handle 4.72. If you can't wait for the Debian packaged version, go to http://www.fortify

Re: Rebuilding Kernel

2000-03-15 Thread Neil L. Roeth
On Mar 13, Andrei Ivanov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to rebuild the kernel. My > > system does not have the > > "/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.14/.config" > > file. How do you create that file > > based on your current kernel?. > > Thanks for your reply. > > > > -shane

Re: WANPIPE X.25

2000-03-15 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> Is there anybody here using the Sangoma WANPIPE cards to do X.25? I'm doing exactly that.

Fetchmail, sendmail... let's do a thread about mail!

2000-03-15 Thread Neil L. Roeth
Are you trying to use fetchmail to get mail from several accounts into mailfolders for one user, or for several users? For one user it is easy, just run it as the intended user, not as user email. For several users, the fetchmail man pages go into a fair amount of detail on how to do it. In shor

home network: will bo play with potato?

2000-03-15 Thread rich
total network newbie here, I recently acquired a 486dx-33 with 1.4gb hard drive that i want to use as an x-terminal to connect to my pentium-200 (which runs potato). Is potato appropriate for a 486? I have an old cd of bo that I thought would work on the 486, but would I be able to connect to the

Installing from MSDOS Partition

2000-03-15 Thread Rod Costain
Hi All;   I thought that I would try the debian install from a MSDOS partition.  I downloaded all the files except for linux, when it downloaded it just opened a new window in the explorer.  It should be a file should it not.  If it is supposed to be a html file then should I save it as it i

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